Call for papers for upcoming Special Issues

IoT Sensing, Applications, & Technologies for Smart Sustainable Cities - click here to download more information
Guest Editors:Dr Gerhard Hancke (lead), Dr Jie Hu (lead), Dr Mohammad Reza Salehizadeh, Dr Xuan Liu, Dr Adnan Abu-Mahfouz, Dr Nikolaos Thomos and Prof. Susumu Ishihara
Submission Deadline: 1^st December 2020

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

Technologies:

• Energy-efficient wireless sensor networks architecture
• Energy-efficient data routing, processing and storage strategies
• Energy-efficient harvesting/charging
• Energy-efficient sensing techniques
• Energy-efficient sensor data techniques
• Long-life sensor node deployment and topology control
• AI-based coordinating sensor devices
• AI-based scheduling sensor algorithms
• AI-based sensor resource orchestration
• Secured sensor communications and network
• Testbed for massive IoT sensing
• AI and 5G based massive IoT technologies
• UAV aided IoT technologies

Sensing and Applications

• Sensing for urban intelligent transport
• Sensing for urban homes and offices
• Sensing for localised urban utilities
• Sensing for urban environments
• Sensing for city residents' public health and wellbeing

Smart Retail & E-Commerce - click here to download more information
Guest Editors: Dr Zhao Li (lead), Dr Peng Zhang, Dr Tianyu Cao, Prof. Jun Gao, Prof. Ji Zhang, Prof. Yuchen Li
Submission Deadline: 1^st July 2020

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

• Challenges in Smart Retail
• Smart supermarkets, smart stores
• Food source and quality tracking
• Cashless checkouts
• Smart inventory control
• Mobile-enabled shopping
• Facial recognition and wireless for food
• Customers profiling
• Smart advertising
• Consumer analytics
• Consumption behaviour in smart cities
• Click models for E-commerce domain
• Personalization and contextualization
• Use of personal facets such as age, gender,location etc.
• Reviews and ratings in ranking
• User interfaces (mobile, desktop, voice, etc.) and personalization
• Reviews and sentiment analysis
• Social signals in ranking and beyond
• Revenue vs relevance
• Trust and security issues
• Live experimentation
• Fashion E-Commerce
• Resources and data
• Retail analytics in E-commerce
• Advertising decisions and strategy optimization
• Display, sponsored-search, keyword and socialadvertising
• Real-time bidding
• Search and recommender systems
• Advertising personalisation
• Questions and answering, chat bots for E-commerce

Geospatial Sensing, Mining & Analytics for Smart Cities - click here to download more information
Honorary Guest Editors: Professor Mike Batty and Professor Guo Huadong
Guest Editors: Ana Basiri, Ying Long, Song Gao, Simone Leo, Tao Cheng
Submission Deadline: 30^th June 2020

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

• Scalable geostatistics for smart cities
• High frequency cities and geospatial data analytics
• Nowcasting using geospatial real-time data
• Data mining, Machine learning and AI techniques for spatial-temporal analytics of city data
• GIS for intelligent city planning and waste management
• Applications of GIS for smart cities
• Public mapping for better citizens engagement
• Crowdsourcing and mobile data gathering techniques
• IoT, LiDAR, and UAV geospatial sensing techniques
• 3D City Modelling and Analysis
• GPS, GNSS, remote sensing, image processing
• City area surveying and geomatics
• Environmental modelling and mapping
• Standards and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

Previously published Special Issues

2019

Smart Energy for Smart Cities

Vol. 1, Issue 2